Originally Posted by 06mistreSS

I find most of my plates at antique shops, car shows/swap meets, and from people that just give their old plates to me. Like Ryan said, you really have to look around for them and ask the right people. You can find very good deals. There's usually at least a few vendors in antique malls with license plates. I'll walk through an entire antique mall just on the lookout for plates. You can always tell by what people have in their section if there's a good chance of there being plates or not. I have yet to do an estate sale and I haven't gotten any of mine from junk or salvage yards. Most salvage yards don't have them anyway.